The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD + BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. a JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUB IBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yorx Henatp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news leiters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henarp, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. i SN LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMEYTS THIS APTERAOOY AND EVENING, COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.--VARIETY, at 5 P.M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. THEODORE THOMAS’ ¢ ERT, at 8 P.M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street aenglich Comic Opera— GRAND DUCHESS. at 8 P.M. Miss Julia Matthews, Mr. G. H. Macdermott, Matinee at 1:30 P.M. ROBINSON HALL, ; Went Sixteenth street.—English Opera—PRINCESS OF TREBIZONDE, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M, MIQUE, TEATR Ps oP. M.; closes at 10:45 Tr F No. 514 Broadway. —VARIETY, at P.M. Matinee at 22. M, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street —ZYKES THE SHOW- MAN, at 4'P, M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, \Pighth avenue, corner Twenty third street. —RICHARD ITT., ‘at P.M; closes at 11 P.M. Matinee at 1:30 P.M HAMLET. WITAN THEATRE, Nes. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at P.M. HOWE & Ct $ CIRCUS, foot of Houston street, Kast Kiver.—Afternoon and evening performances, Irving _ place THE WORLD IN BIGHTY closes at 11 P. M. Matinee at 1:30 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, ew Opera House, Broadway. corner of Twenty-ninth street, atS P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M. ROOTH'S THEATRE, ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—RICHARD TTI., at 8 P.M. Mr. Barry Sullivan, Matinee at 1:30 P. M.—LADY OF LYONS. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, ‘wenty third street and Sixth avenne.—C( N & REED'S IXSTRELS, ot SF. M.; closes at 10 P.M. Matinee at 2 OLYMPIC THEATRE, (24 Broadway VARIETY, at 8 F. M.; closes ot 1045 4 Matinee at 2 P. M. GARDEN, ND POPULAR CON- Matinee at 2 P.M. GILMORE'S SU late Barnum's ‘Hippodrome. RT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH THEATRE, ‘Twenty-eighth street. near Broadwa} XICAN JUVEN- ILE OPERA TROUPE, at 8 P.M. at 10:80 P.M. Soledad Unda y Moron. ' Matinee at SUPPLEMENT. WITH NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and cloudy, with rain followed by cooler temperature and clearing skies. Wan Srrrer Yesterpay.—Stocks were ir- regular, with a downward tendency at the close. Erie was the principal exception. Gold advanced to 114%, closing at 114}, Money was freely offered at 1} and 2 per cent on call. Green Frvrr and Green Comptroller are the twin nuisances of the hour. Rvssta continues her work of gobbling up Central Asia. General ‘Kaufman has just entered the city of Khokand, and probably he will not be in a hurry to leave it. Tae Srnre of the Dundee operatives has ended, as most of these movements end, in the submission of the workingmen. A five per cent reduction of wages was accepted. Tur Case or Cuantry Ross is occupying the attention of the Philadelphia courts. Westervelt has been on trial for four days, but the prosecution does not yet seem to have elicited any very important information. The case continues to be a mystery of the most unfathomable kind. Morperovs Mrxers.—The condition of affairs in the mining regions of Pennsyl- wania is deplorable. Murder stalks red- handed through the country, and men are | shot down in broad daylight by the agents of a powerful secret association that rules over the lives of all the inhabitants. Such a state of fhings is disgraceful to onr civilization, and we are glad to see that the frequency with which these crimes are committed is arousing a general spirit of indignation among the law-respecting portion of the community. If the people will only take the matter earnestly in hand they can cure the evil. Besides, this trouble among the miners gives the speculators a chance to run up the prices of fuel, and so bear heavily upon the poor everywhere. Tur Menpen Masta.—Murder in the slums of New York is becoming so frequent that killing must soon be looked on in the light ofa slight offence. It is certain that the rongh element of our population no longer fook upon murder as anything more than a venial sin against public morality, On the slightest provocation the knife is brought into requisition, with the most deadly re- sults, Something must be done by the courts to stop this wholesale, cowardly assassina- tion. If every ruffian caught in the act of using or attempting to use deadly weapons were punished to the utmost limit of the law these murderous brawls would soon | cease, It is only by the adoption of a severe and constantly-enforeed rule of punishment in cases of murderous assault that this evil san. be effectively checked, | litical future in their party in New York, | for the republicans | of Connecticut. A Returning Prodigal. We hear a singular report that Governor | Fenton, the leader of the liberal republicans | in this State, is about to make his peace with | the republican party and return to its | bosom. This rumor does not appear to us | incredible; for Mr. Fenton is an astute poli- | tician, who probably sees that the republi- | can party in New York, though perhaps | more harmonitus than Tammany under the | rule of Mr. Kelly, is yet divided into two | | tolerably irreconcilable factions; one of | | which follows Senator Conkling, while | | the other would follow almost anybody else rather than him. It is not to| be supposed that Mr. Fenton will join | | the Conkling ranks; but it is quite pos- sible that the anti-Conkling men, the Mor- gan men, let us say, may be very glad of the help of so excellens and powerful a political manager as Mr. Fenton. They might do worse; for they might go far away and not find so helpful an ally as he could be, What appears to us less probable in this rumor is that the statesman of Jamestown should put his reconciliation with some of | his former associates upon the ground that the republican party has acceded to all the demands of the liberals, and that therefore the natural and comfortable place of these | prodigal sheep is in the old fold. Mr. Fen- | ton is hardiy capable of putting forth such a pretense as that; for he would expose him- self to langhter. He and his associates have certainly been badly neglected by the demo- crats; but so far they have received no comfort either from the republicans. | Nor is this surprising. The democrats would have been wise had they, wherever they could, put forward eminent liberal re- publicans as their own men. Had they made General Schurz Senator in Missouri and David A. Wells Senator in Connecticut ; had they given Mr. Fenton hopes of a po- they would have strengthened themselves in their one weak point—the confidence of the country. But they failed to do this, and it is but natural, under the circumstances, that the republican leaders should now give a cold shoulder to the liberal chiefs. They be- lieve that they can fegain the rank and file of the liberal party without the help of the leaders. The republican chiefs evidently believe that democratic folly will serve them more powerfully than Schurz and all the liberal leaders combined. Nor are they wrong in this. There is no room fora third party. Athird party movement next year would be a farce. It would have only the most scanty following, and its leaders would fall into public contempt. But if Mr. Fenton should say, as rumor reports him saying, that he and his fellow prodigals may safely return to the republi- can fold because all that they demanded has been granted, he would put himself in a fatally false position; for it may more justly be said that nothing which the liberals de- manded has been done by the republicans. They opposed, in the first place, the renomi- nation of General Grant; but to-day a third term stares them in the face. They de- manded a reform of the revenue laws, and it has been refused by the party they left. They demanded a_ sound financial policy, and in Congress felt themselves compelled to oppose every republican finan- cial measure. They demanded the punish- ment of corrupt public officers, and they behold Mr. Delano itt the Cabinet. Finally, they demanded a liberal and judicions policy toward the Southern States, and they see Spencer, Kellogg, Packard, Casey, Brooks, the favorites of the republican adminis- tration. A The truth is that the liberal republicans stand to-day in an awkward and painful po- sition. They have no place to go. Both parties have treated their principles and their leading men with contempt. They are re- pelled from the democratic ranks by the melancholy lack of principle manifested on that side. If they look to Ohio they are dis- gusted with Allen, Carey and Pendleton, and probably no less with Thurman. If they look to New York they are not charmed by the whispers of Tilden. It cannot be sup- posed that any thonghtfal liberal just now finds himself strongly drawn toward the democratic party. If he surveys the field he probably determines he will not go there at any rate. But on the other side stand the republican chiefs, who hold out no welcom- ing hands. They plainly believe that these wandering lambs have noother place to go, and must return to their former home, It is, as in the old nursery rhyme— Little Bopeep, She lost her sheep, And conldn’t tell where to find them; let alone, And they'll come home, And bring their tails behind ther, The spectacle of this return may not be amusing to the sheep, but it will rega Bopeep, no doubt, who has sat still and | waited, knowing that in the fulness of time, scared by democratic wolves, the recalci- | trant sheep would come trooping back. | fair But it is probably to expect | that a few of the sheep will not return. Mr. Schurz, it is said, will speak | in Ohio; but Mr. | David A. Wells, the other hand, is spoken of as the next democratic Governor | And so they will pair off; | and thus Mr. Fenton’s return to the repub- lican party in New York, if it should prove true, will, we suspect, mean nothing except | that Mr. Fenton has gone back. He may mend his own fortunes, but he will scarcely | advance the principles and policy in which he believes. He will not have much influ- | ence with the administration. | Toa man like General Grant a statesman | of the Fenton order is peculiarly disagreeable. | | The oiliness of Reuben confuses the blunt | | perceptions of Ulysses, and makes him suspi- | cions. The adroit and underhand way of | | grasping power and patronage which Fenton has illustrated in his career isso diametrically opposed to Grant's direct and uncompromis- | ing plan for winning political fights as well | as real battles that anything like permanent on | peace between them is unlikely. As it hap- pe before with this Prodigal so | it is likely to happen again. Once | restored to confidence the oily statesman would commence getting up his little com- | binations in all sorts of dark corners, until, at | length, Grant, who leans to the side ef coarse- ness and disregard of political amehities in his headlong conduct of partisan war, would | see State ticket by a large plurality, but claim | ing those prov come down with a heavy foot on all tne ) machinations of the illustrious ex-Gov- erner of New York and send him forth again howling to seek sonte fresh field for his peculiar abilities, Of course the return of Fenton to the republican fold would be in itself a strong point for the | party, but those who know the conditions on | which he would be readmitted ean readily | how humiliating they would be to the Prodigal. In the present struc- ture of the republican party Fe ton would be brought face to face with | His Excellency; for all the little men of straw around him count but as puppets, and | this would be bad for Reuben. If the re- | publican party had a servant, not a master, in President Grant; if the smiling Colfax were a power and not a byword; if the Cassandra- tongued Wilson had his reformatory way; if the Conklings and Caseys did not keep the doors of the party convention, the Prodigal might have a place. As it is he would have suspicion all round him and a band of fierce Mamelukes ready to club him out of doors if he tried to take a hand in’ the game of government. The Democratic Victory in California. A democratic suecess in California was not unexpected, but it seems to have sur- passed the most sanguine hopes of the party in distant States. There was no election in Jalifornia last year, and no means of judg- ing whether “the tidal wave” extended to that State. In 1872 Grant’s majority over Greeley was between thirteen and fourteen thonsand, and in 1873 the democratic vote fell off more than one-half. But that elec- tion was held a few weeks in advance of the great September panic, which turned the seale in Ohio and lifted the democratic party from the prostration in which it had been left by the Presidential election. Although California held no election last year the sue- cess of the democrats in Oregon showed that on the Pacific coast the same causes were in operation which had given so great an impetus to the democratic party east of the Rocky Mountains. Shrewd observers, therefore, came to the conclusion that California wotld this year go democratic, and the great speculative interests accordingly gave a quiet support to the party. Even Mr. Ralston, who had been a prominent, active republican, contributed money in aid of the democratic canvass. The great speculating interests have so many axes'to grind in the Legislature that they did not think it prudent to have the party in power against them. This state of things does not account for the democratic victory, but it explains why it was so great. It was a foregone conclusion in the minds of the speculators that the democrats would carry the State, and they turned in and helped it because it was for their interest ‘‘to have friends at court.” The democrats have not only elected their to have chosen certainly three and perhaps all four of the Congressmen, whereas they had but one member of the last House. So signal a success will not only encourage the hopes of the democrats in other States, but will strengthen the hard-money wing of the party in the National Convention next year. Dele- gates from States which can give electoral votes for the candidates will naturally have more influence than delegates from States which can merely assist in making the nom- inations without doing anything for the ticket. California would have been a hard- money State in any event, but it can protest with more effect against inflation when its delegates virtually hold the electoral votes of the Pacific States in their hands. Nobody should be sorry to see the hard-money wing of the democratic party strengthened. Turkey in Europe. If the opinion expressed in the despatches as to what Russia will say to the intimation Austria has given to the Servians is founded upon knowledge of her intentions then the Turkish officials in the Danube Valley might as well pack up their portable prop- erty. Servia, as we have already seen, is ready to throw herself into the quarrel in support of her neighbors; and we can see how necessarily her aspirations tend that way when we see that the Turks instinctively recognize her as already an enemy, and make ng vain distinctions between Herze- govinians and Servians, but cross either frontier and butcher all alike. But Austria informs the Servians that they must take no active part in the quarrel or she will invade their country; and Russia, ‘‘it is believed,” will protest against this attitude on the part of Austria, If Russia takes this course she assumes an attitude in support of the insurrection, and just in proportion as she is recognized as support- ing it the insurrection will spread and sweep before it all of Islam that is north of the Balkan. It will, indeed, appear then in the light of a movement inspired from the first by Russian influence. Before the ap- pearance, however, of a declaration which shall commit Russia to the attitude already given her by a quasi diplomatic opinion, it would at least be premature to speculate on the consequences of such a course. That inssia and Austria have not agreed upon some common policy, in pursuance of which they could act together in this case, can only be attributed to the great natural difficulty of the problems presented. Russia and Germany can agree on the ground that Rus- sia shall have all the country she wants on the Danube if Germany may have the Ger- man provinces that are Austrian, and Ans- tria might be brought to the point of yield- ces if she conld get what she may deem an equivalent in the Fast; but her | ideas of an equivalent are apparently such as would rule Russia ont of the case alto- gether, and so an agreement is impossible, Tar Tramp Nursance is being vigorously dealt with No effort. certainly ought to be spared to root ont this growing evil. Ifthe tramp class will not work for an honest living it is better they should be sent to jail. in Jersey. Tux Hox. T, A. H pricks, in his speech | to the Ohio democrats, declared himself in favor of a sound and stable currency, but | took good care not to explain too minutely | what he meant by a “sound and stable enr- | rency.” He is opposed to contraction and to | inflation, and would, in fact, like to be on both sides of the fence ut once, | of shedding blood. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Stock Market. The stock market, which some people re- gardas only a gambling place, is, in fact, one of the most valuable indicators of the condition of the country and of the real value of securities. The men who buy and sell stocks, bonds and other public se- curities daily are shrewd, watchful, well-in- formed; they study the actual condition of railroads; States, cities and other public debtors, and seek to know constantly what is the real value of a security. If the crops are good they foresee that railroads will do a good business, and they will pay higher prices for the bonds or stocks of such railroads as they believe to be well managed. If they discover that a railroad has been exceptionally well managed they are more eager to possess its evidences of debt; if they can discover that a railroad or other public corporation is badly managed they hasten to sell out, and thus, the demand lessening, the security goes down in the market. Thus Wall street and its Stock Exchange become ready indi- cators of the real value of hundreds of securi- ties involving thousands of millions of dol- lars. At the Stock Exchange all these values are brought to their ultimate test, and the actual purchase and sale are the warranty. This is the theory of the Stock Exchange, and this abtndantly justifies its exist- ence.- On this theory thousands of shrewd bnt honest men are continu- ally buying and selling stocks and bonds all over the country ; for it is a fact sometimes overlooked thata great part of the business done at the New York Stock Ex- change is done by brokers on account of cor- respondents scattered all over the land— bankers, merchants, capitalists of different kinds, many of whom make a special study of a particular enterprise, and buy or sell this security as in their judgment it becomes more or less valuable. So far all is natural and useful’ to the public. But suppose now that some unscrupulous speculator enters the arena, bent on increasing his own fortune at all hazards. He turns Wall street into a mere gambling place. Real values are of no im- portance to him. To work out his schemes he seeks to bring confusion on the market. Under his manipulations the stock register to a great extent ceases to indicate actual values ; it no longer tells the truth, for it is to his interest to raise or to depress securi- ties by secret manipulations for his own pur- poses. Suchaman presently hangs like a black pall over the stock market. No care- ful investigation, no precise knowledge, no accuracy of general survey suffices to enable the legitimate operator to buy or sell in safety, because natural laws are violated or defied by the man who temporarily controls the market, and whose object is to make prices subordinate to his will. This, if we may believe the general voice of Wall street, is the present condition of things there. Brokers complain that their country correspondents and their customers in the other large cities decline to send them orders. These people are right. They are not gamblers, and they refuse to take the risks against Mr. Gould. Natural laws they understand, but they know'that the market just now is not controlled by natural laws, but in violation of them. So they stand from under, and thus it comes about that Wall street is duller to-day than it was during the panic of 1873. For our part, we advise prudent people who have money in their pockets to keep out of Wall street just now. They have no business there. But the advice is hardly needed—they are keep- ing out. Another Opportunity for Mr. Bergh. It is not often that we agree with the pecu- liar notions of Mr. Henry Bergh, but we al- ways take pleasure in finding for him objects worthy of his sympathy. If the excellent President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has not yet read our report of the pigeon match ag Newport on Thursday we beg him to do so at once, for he will find in it many things to ~ ‘eve his manly bosom. In the match for the Bennett Cup one hundred and thirty-six birds were killed outright and many others wounded unto death. Just think of it, Mr. Bergh—one hundred and thirty-six birds killed in a sin- gle match! But the details of the shooting are even more tonching. On the very first round our report tells us that Mr. G. T. Dab- ney hit a driver, but it carried the shot ont of bounds. It may be necessary to explain just here that in pigeon shooting a ‘‘driver” is not one of those natural enemies of horse kind and Mr. Bergh who sit all day long on the boxes of the Broadway stages, but a bird of unusual vigor, and we know that it will bring tears into the eyes of the philanthropist to learn that Mr. Dabney’s bird, which car- ried away such an unpleasant quantity of shot, was not included in the one hundred | and thirty-six victims of the pigeon shooters’ | sport. In the second round Mr. G. Douglas “twisted a bird completely round as he tow- ered slowly up, which was considered a good kill.” Read this and weep, Mr. Bergh. We have no heart to pursne the subject further, | our whole object being to commend it to | Bergh’s sympathetic nature. If we have sne- ceeded in arousing that good man our pur- | pose is accomplished, This Newport match | was an occasion for griefs and tears, and we* trust the President of the society with a ‘mame too long to be begun and ended on the same day will indulge freely in both. Tne Gatrows.—Arkansas justice is rude, | but vigorous and effective. In these days of sham philanthropy it is refreshing to know that there are some gections of the country where the crime of murder receives dune punishment. At Fort Smith, yesterday, six murderers expiated their crimes on the gallows, and the memory of this rigorous administration of the law is not likely to be soon forgotten by the wild border popnla- tion. If only our city juries and judges would follow the good example set them by Arkansas the cowardly murders which dis- grace this city would be effectively checked. | It is the hope of immunity from punishment | | which makes the rowdy element so careless | Green Acatx.--Green has again entered on the warpath, and seems as eager as ever to collect scalps from the followers of Mayor Wickham. This time the doughty Comp- | mortality which afllicts this city, troller refuses to pay the August salaries of | the permit clerks, which hs has suddenly discovered to be illegal. As Mr. Green has not only frequently paid these clerks without comment and voted for a special grant to meet their case his conduct is fairly open to the suspicion of being prompted more bya desire to be obstructive than by any strict idea of duty to the taxpayers. People are heartily tired of this cantanker- ous official, and there are very few citizens who would not hear with something like re- lief that Mr, Green had ceased to be at the head of the financial department of the city government, Steeplechasing at Newport. Whatever tends to make our summer homes more attractive will contribute to the civilization of the people. The growth of our summer cities has been exceptional and gratifying during the last few years. Sara- toga, Long Branch, Atlantic City, Cape May and twenty other summer resorts have quite attained metropolitan proportions, Newport, old, conservative, respected, with attractions in itself possessed by no other summer resort in the country, has been quietly content to drift on in her antique way, repelling rather than attracting summer guests. Recently she has taken a new departure and follows in the steps of Trouville; Dieppe, Nice and the famous watering places of Europe. To-day there will be a steeplechase, which is remarkable as the first attempt of Newport to vary her quiet amusements by national attractions. The track at Newport is one of the finest in the country. It is really like the tracks in England. It is across the country, over natural grass and turf, and not like the carefully prepared tracks for ordinary races, The difference be- tween steeplechasing on the Newport Course and the steeplechase on our ordinary tracks isas great as between skating on ice and skating in the parlor. The course at Newport is very much like that at Auteuil, near Paris. The steeple- chase is one of the manliest of amusements. It was imported from Canada in 1841, where it arose out of the English habits of hunting in the fields and riding after the fox and stag. The first steeplechase in America was so unfortunate as to result in the death of the principal rider, a Mr. Brownie, who was killed on the Beacon Course, now the site of Hudson City. This was in 1841. A law was passed by the New Jersey Legislature forbid- ding either steeplechasing or horse racing. This continued in force until the opening of the Paterson Course in 1864. The steeple- chase has now become an attraction at all our races. No meeting is complete without a scamper over the turf and a leap over gates and ditches. We are glad to see Newport asserting her prominence asa summer city by adding to her attractions. Some of the best horses in the country, among them Deadhead, Cariboo, Osage, Meteor, Minnie Me and Shanghraun, will be at the meeting, We have little doubt that it will be an event worthy in every way of this noble sport and worthy of the new departure which con- servative Newport has taken in providing amusement for its citizens. American Defences, The Hrratn’s letters from Newport describ- ing the torpedo experiments possess more than ordinary interest. For a long time, since the close of our war, the question has been, What should America do for the purposes of national self-defence? A large standing army was impossible. It is opposed to the genius of our institutions. We could not very well have a large navy. Unlike Eng- land, we have no colonies to protect. We have no ambitions to gratify, like Russia or Germany; no revenge to cherish, like France. We have an immense sea coast to protect. Our danger, in the event of a war with a foreign Power, is not military, but naval. America, as a military Power, can defend itself. We do not think that any military Power would ever think of making war upon the United States by invasion. We have great seaboard cities which at any time might be captured and bombarded by a foreign fleet. There are San Francisco, New Orleans, Charleston, Baltimore, New York, Philadel- phia, Boston, Portland, all open toa naval attack, an attack which would be resistless so far as any military or naval defence on our part could be made. The troubles that were threatened bythe Alabama complica- tions with England, now happily past, attracted the attention of our authorities toward the necessity of some system of defence. It has culminated in a torpedo system, which is probably as fine as any in the world. Its success is shown by the ex- periments at Newport, under the direction of Admiral Porter and Secretary Robeson. We see what can be done by powder, nitro- glycerine and gun-cotton, The progress of science has given advantages to defensive warfare the value of which cannot be over- estimated. We read of torpedo boats con- trolled by electric currents running under water for two or three miles, with the ac- curagy of mathematics, striking the bottom of avessel and whirling it up in the air. We have aship thrown three hundred feet | into the air and coming down in splinters. We have mines of gunpowder exploding under the water so powerful as to make life anywhere in the neighborhood impossible. With these different torpedo boats, which have been brought to a perfection and ac- enracy and destructiveness that can hardly | be comprehended, it would seem impossible for any foreign fleet to make an entrance into our harbors or to bombard our great cities. The trne defence of America from any naval attack is in the perfection of our tor- pedo boats. Admiral Porter and Secretary Robeson deserve great credit for their fore- sight in making the system worthy of the necessities of the government and of our patriotic duties as a people. Minx Apunrr: ‘The Board of Health has done good service to the public in making war on the dishonest mille dealers. Yesterday no less than fifteen of these gentry were fined in the sum of fifty dollars for adulterating their milk, and charges are pend- | and demands that they pay him $200 week. The Bar. We hope these | | ‘ ‘ | prosecutions may be pushed on vigoronsly. ing against many more. The men who steal by adulterating milk grow rich by poisoning the poor, and are respon- sible in great part for the large infant first consequence that so necessary an article It is of the | ts oo of food as milk is should come to the cone sumers in a wholesome state, and whatever efforts the Board of Health may find it neces- sary to make for the suppression of adulter- ated milk will receive the hearty support of the public, Georgia Affairs. The trial of the colored men charged with insurrection in Georgia has practically ended in the acquittal of the prisoner first tried, the remainder being discharged, To have jus- tice done before the law in the face of strong race prejudices is extremely gratifying, and the®conduct of the people and authorities during the whole affair will remain an honor to the State. We print elsewhere an interesting letter from a correspondent who has taken pains to speak with colored as well as white men at Sandersville, and who presents the views of both sides, It seems to be established by the trial that, though » very few bad men may have been ready for mischief, there was no general intention among the blacks to murder or commit violence, But it seems, too, that the colored people have been alarmed to such a degree that they propose a general emigration from Burke and other counties. Georgia has al- ready lost a good many of her colored laborers by emigration ; but there is no like- lihood of any general or serious movement out of the State. The great mass of the col- ored people of Georgia are doing well. They will pay taxes this year on over seven mill- ions of property. They own nearly four hundred thousand acres of farming land, The rich lands of Mississippi and Arkansas tempt them Westward, as they do the whites ; but it is not probable that they will remove in large bodies. Tue Punic Scuoors.—On Monday next _the public schools reopen to begin their work of training the young. It is pleasant to know that these invaluable aids to civilization and enlightenment are steadily growing in pub- lic favor and constantly extending the scope of their action. Every wellwisher to free- dom and to human progress must rejoice at this, for the best security of our republican institutions rests in the intelligence of the masses of our people. It is certain that the new race of voters growing up under the teaching and guidance of the public schools will be far more intelligent than the genera- tion they replace. It is consoling to think that something like two hundred thousand children in this city alone attend the public schools and are growing up to an intelligent appreciation of government by the people under which they have the happiness to live, So long as the public schools are maintained intact the Republic is secured, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Serer. are Senator Oliver P. Mortonsleft this city yesterday faq his home in Indiana, Mojor Birney B. Keeler, United States Army, is quan tered at the Glenham Hotel, Doolittle will be the orator at Winnebago instead @ Jeff, Davis, who did too much. Tidian Commissioner Smith returned to Washingtow yesterday from Massachusetts. A cable despatch says Lord Dufferin will sail for Cane ada on the 8th of October next. Judge 8. B. Beardsley, of Bridgeport, Conn., is so= journing at the Sturtevant House, Charles Linderman, formerly Clerk of the Supreme. Court, is a candidate for Congress in Towa. Mr. George 8. Bangs, Superintendent of the Railway Postal Service, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived in this city yes: terday and took up his residence at the Grand Contra? v that California has gone “technically demo just as the national government is technically republican. “Out of one side of his mouth’? was the way Tildes talked to George Alfred, but he talks to some people out of the other side. Captains John G, Butler and Frank H. Phipps, of the Ordnance Department, United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Secretary Bristow arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hote? from Washington last evening, and will leave by the early boat this morning for Long Branch. They complain that Charles Francis Adams is stingy; and the fact is that aman who has not stolen a couple of millions from the government must be stingy to live in these days. ‘The Count Samaileff, who drives a four-in-hand of gigantic Siberian hounds around Paris, has been called off the streets by the authorities, who want him to con- fine his amusement to times when the hydrophobia isn’t around. In ono part of the country there are some people “awfully mystified by the occurrence of a shower of hay, and some hundreds of miles distant the people ara grumbling terribly that the whirlwind should come just as their hay was cut, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage has returned from his coun+ try sojourn, and on Sunday the Brooklyn Tabernacle will be open for services, when Messrs, Morgan and Arbuckle, of the choir, will be in attendance. During the vacation the building has been renovated, Governor Hartranft was met at the depot at Erie, Pa, by an immense crowd last-night, and was tendered a grand reception at the Reed House, He will review the Seventh division of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, which is now at Camp Hartranft, in this city, to-day, The trustees of the Colloge of New Jersey elected to day Charles MeMillan, of Lehigh University, Professos of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the John C. Green School of Science, He will enter upor his duties at the opening of the college next week. Speaking of the new attempt to raise money fm finishing the Washington monument, the Providence | Press apUy suggests that it would be more to the pur pose to raise a few statesmen on the Washington model, But George wasn't raive.| under the republican party. Mrs, Davenport, out in Iowa, was elected delegate to & town convention and claimed her seat, supposing, perhaps, that the parties would be more liberal than the law is; but the seat was refosed, “it ‘being doubtful whether the party would consider itself bound by acts Of dolegates who were non-voters.” Fenton says that “no citizen who regards the public welfare need hesitate to condemn” the platform of the Ohio democrats, All the republican denunciation of this democratic madness will be very useful if the re- publicans, for the sake of sticking to it, are compelled to take their position for sound money. * In Lee county, Georgia, the other day, a hound struck a trail and followed it persistently, but for a while no one followed. The honnd’s long continued absence led to an investigation, His trail was followed, and, about ten o'clock im the morning, his baying betrayed his whereabouts, and when the party arrived whore the hound was, they found—not an otter or a coon, but @ darky treed. The hound had struck his trail, run hina down, forced bim to take to the tree and kept him there from ten o'clock at night until two in the morning. Evidently a dog of the “good old times,” avd unine formed of the thirteenth amendment, Mr. Beecher is to return to Brooklyn this week, much to the displeasure of the Barrons, who keep the hotel where he is stuying. They have given him his board and $50 a week to stay and preach at their house. He thinks they are making too much money out of him rons say this is too mach, and Beecher says, “Allright, gentlemen, I go home this week.” “If you do wo will | sue you for breach of contract, for, Mr. Beecher, you agreed to stay until the third Sunday in September,’ Beeeher coolly replies:—Sue away, if you like. shontd think after whas vou have seen of my succoss im the law business that you would know better than te undertake @ sult against me,""—Avening Kavress, & *